John Daly walks off the 18th green after missing the cut today at Torrey Pines Golf Course in San Diego. (AP Photo)

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After missing today’s cut at Torrey Pines by a mile, John Daly says he’s quitting golf, for good. “I’m done,” Daly, 43, told the Golf Channel. “I can’t compete. I can’t play like I use too. … I’m tired of embarrassing myself in front of (my fans).” Daly, who has two majors among his 19 professional victories, missed the cut in the only other PGA event he played this year.

John Daly is his own worst enemy. He let down so many people, including sponsors that he faded into oblivion a long time ago....he's just finally gotten sober enough to realize it.

brawne

Jan 30, 2010 11:50 AM CST

He illustrates the problem with addiction. Plenty of people drink with no problem, smoke pot, take a vicodan for their tooth abscess. but the ten percent who get addicted to the first thing that makes them feel better--booze, a twinkie, a fuck, ten vicodan or throwing up that twinkie are ill and it would be so nice if the 90 percent of us who can drink three drinks and forget it for a month, or eat and work out, or smoke pot once a year on our birthday like you should would have some empathy for the people who got the genetic-addiction gene. In my family it goes like two for one every other generation. You are one of those lucky ones who gave no replicated gene. My niece who was a state softball pitching champ and straight A student went straight to heroin and my son went from pot to pills-- while he was in the Odyssey program for the gifted. I thought it weird until I checked out the husband's family and discovered they were half narcotic addicts for four generations. Might want to check that out before you spawn. My other son who didn't inherit that feels a tad guilty cause he isn't arrogant or stupid enough to think that that it is anything but luck, and not a choice. Why he and his wife are both scientists studying genomes. The horrible thing for humans is that the flip side of genius is usually an addiction--why so many stupid people think that they just chose to not drink or smoke pot--too genetically fucked to think of it. But, they make all those stupid babies that do little more than exist; suck up my school tax dollars for their c's and make babies even dumber than they--since IQ always drops, Non-deep thinker. And you only need the one hyphen cause a series of adjectives needs commas but adjectives that can't be left out need a hyphen but you still have to have a noun--thinker. An non is a prefix and the only prefix that takes a comma is self. So, Nondeep thinker would be the way to go unless you accepted that non and deep aren't a word and went with not-deep thinker. Unless of course your name is Nona .